Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74386616e09d1d3a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-09 22:22:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: fde8ef2dad2352065ac22161463289cb SHA-1: 422b01d23bec125e82159e097cd0e240d40b89dd SHA-256: 74386616e09d1d3a16e4a35dd6d5c32c88f2d8a331bce9753a3b5dbd1d5d07a2
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm and employs a callback lure, suggesting it's designed to trick users into contacting malicious actors under the guise of support or billing issues. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and associated URLs point towards a phishing or social engineering attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mimo+learn+to+code+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://konikanarrowfab.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80001098670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16139d4c47de0b---9800077807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hobbypet.cz/files/file/41297907954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tion.hu/upload/file/pomowujuvomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleartunemonitors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75962660742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kipia-nn.ru/userfiles/file/porukejegerurujibudatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lire-les-notes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92532869346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharpconsulting.us/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89003705112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prtourusa.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210905_3C1F07290F472F77.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skiflogistics.ru/userfiles/file/wojorimaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eurosecurimed.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89157326443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandplaza.bg/uploads/assets/file/51881570533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giant-nano.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/10013435907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicoprato.eu/userfiles/files/maluxuziguzokopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbhg8e7rb4mglum58g8d2jva62/54206388525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ffarchitettura.it/userfiles/files/57470710080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bruceleevideos.org/images/file/pijepevefifuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anyimaker.com/upload/users/files/34799768575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://startmatbaa.com/userfiles/file/19760031313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongphat.net/upload/files/22371202891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africareview.in/userfiles/file/33713966706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biancoacolori.it/userfiles/files/sexodebovuvilaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anakmeong.com/contents/files/gidokisazikeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d7e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7E7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eff9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFF9 17812 bytes
SHA-256: 89fd755f801029d5452d5ce4ca82888ffd0cf16e8b640c96653f3966d5b062f0
font_02_sfnt_off00011d81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D81 10592 bytes
SHA-256: bfc7ccf745df8cbab341c0707df66667de563059285a1acea8a9886764757328